of
time,
established for foreign consumption not for domestic legal guidance. It
was established for defensive purpose against foreign naturalization
Chinese, rather than for domestic assurance to individuals for their
safeguard of civil rights as Chinese nationals. Traditionally, it is
practiced as such. Since the first nationality law was adapted 30 years
after the Communist regime was established, it is obvious that the
regime can afford to neglect, if not ignore, it for such a long
even though the country comprises one-quarter of the world's population.
Like her predecessor, the Chinese Communist also believe that the
nationality law is a tool to manipulate the population to fight against
other countries. The only difference between them is that the Communist
see his law as a law for working class while the law made by non-
Communist was a law for the bourgeois class. But Communist writers have
never gone into detail to define their legal code, or outline their
differences with the KMT.
commitment to state
To summarize, then, due to her hard-line
consent and jus sanguinis and due to the influence of the Taipei
government and supporters in Hong Kong, the present regime with very
little choice in defining nationality law and practice. Therefore, just
as in the past, the problem of dual nationality becomes complicated in
Hong Kong, and will be more complicated in the future. As long as the
PRC commits to these two
legal
principles, the
problem of dual
nationality will never go away.
nationality of Chinese British subjects in Hong Kong, a further dual
nationality is created in the last Sino-British Memoranda.
That is why, on the top of the dual
Judging from
a recent publication on the nationality issue done by a Communist expert
of nationality issue done by a Communist expert of nationality law.
95
problem of dual nationality
subjects in Hong Kong.
will still remain for Chinese British
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